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Monday, June 28, 2010

[chottala.com] Controlling The Minds Of The Masses: How It Is Done And Why



"Mind Control" is a loaded term, often associated with science fiction and the fantastical by people who are not aware of its very real history.  Images of Orwell's "1984" or Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" are conjured; dystopic nightmare landscapes assumed only possible in pulp literature.  What many people do not know or realize is that these books were based on actual ideas and theories that had been put forward by social and scientific elites for decades, and in some cases, centuries.  The desire of the "ruling class" to understand the mechanics of the human mind has left a trail of misery dating back to earliest recorded history.  It was not enough for them to subjugate the masses through force; the Elites wanted the people to accept their slavery, to integrate it into their psyches.  They wanted us to be "thankful" for our servitude, for only then, would they truly be in control of the world.

To understand where this obsession with mind control comes from and how it works, we must first start at the beginning…

The Genius And The Horror Of Babylon

Babylon was the first of what we would now call "urban centers" or city states.  Until Babylon, most of the human world lived in closely knit tribal societies composed of several families or "clans."  The Sumerians had set the first foundation stones in the formation of a new political and social architecture–the empire–but this architecture was not fully realized until Babylon.

Babylonian society achieved several things in the process of mass mind control, but its greatest accomplishment was taking the first step towards "centralization."

With the construction of Babylon, the sovereignty and relative independence of the tribal system ended.  Before this, many tribes were nomadic, laying claim to no specific plot of land, and surviving by hunting, foraging, and some animal domestication.  This method of life is considered by most of us today to be highly primitive and ineffective (perhaps because most people know nothing about it), but it also had many merits.  With Babylon came the centralization of tribes into the faceless and careless recesses of urban life.  Agriculture on a large scale was introduced, not necessarily because it increased food production, but because it tied the people to the land indefinitely through an early form of feudalism (some scientists and historians question whether forced agriculture actually helped or harmed human society).

Instead of the tribal council of elders; a system of leadership based on experience and trust, Babylon gave rise to the first vestiges of "Royalty"– leadership based on nothing but heraldry and bloodlines.  Ever since the Babylonian model was established, societies have deferred authority to centralized governments composed of men that have little if any legitimate respect or connection to the people they govern (with only a few exceptions in history).  The rulers became almost faceless deities that cast laws and lightning bolts down on the masses from some unreachable Olympus, floating high above the toil and worry of the serfs and slaves.  This mentality in regards to our government continues today.

Babylon also introduced the centralization of religion.  Instead of a rich tapestry of many different tribal belief systems, all people absorbed into Babylon were indoctrinated into a single religious system.  This religion was built on a "pyramid structure" in which the priests held incredible social sway.  The secrets of their religion (often termed "mysteries") were reserved for only those priests at the top of the pyramid.  All others in the priesthood were carefully chosen and inducted through a series of "tests," mostly psychological in nature.

This system of compartmentalization was the key to the priesthood's control over the minds of the masses.  Knowledge in fields such as mathematics, navigation, astronomy, and other early sciences, were kept from the commoners and slaves, giving the priesthood and the royalty incredible power over their subjects.

These methods were carried on by elites in various empires to come, and perfected by the ancient Egyptians, who found a way to combine the centralization of Royalty and Religion into the creation of "God Kings"; human leaders who were also treated by the masses as living gods.

The startling allure of early Christianity was probably in part due to the priesthoods of these empires and their abuses of the people.  Christianity (at first) destroyed the paradigm of the pyramid structure in religion.  It claimed no "mysteries," and said that there should be no hidden and exalted order of priests, that all the beliefs and knowledge of religion should be open to everyone.  Of course, this changed centuries later when Christianity was co-opted by the same elites they were trying to fight, but we will cover this in a later article.

The root methods of mind control were born in the ancient mystery sects of Babylon and Egypt.  This is where symbolic structures in the unconscious, now called "Archetypes," were first studied and utilized.  This is where tactics such as "Pageantry" and early forms of the Hegelian Dialectic were first practiced.  These same techniques designed thousands of years ago are still used today, but with new and frightening technological efficiency.

Archetypes: A Map To The Mind, Or Perhaps Even The Soul

Archetypes are structures of knowledge inherent in the human mind from the moment we are born into the world.  They were first fully explored in a scientific manner by the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung.  Jung found during his decades of study into the unconscious mind that there within existed a series of symbols with built in psychological implications.  These symbols were adapted by various archetypal structures that exist in our psyches from birth, and they are common to every human being regardless of environmental conditions, historical background, or cultural background, meaning they are universal.   They make their home in our unconscious minds and are most visible in our dreams, art, and religions.  In fact, all successful religions are built upon Archetypal Symbolism.

No one knows yet where archetypes come from, and how they are present in our psyches at birth, but the fact is, they are there.  Here are some interesting articles explaining more on specific Archetypes and what they represent:

http://www.stenudd.com/myth/freudjung/jung-archetypes.htm

http://www.tnnweb.com/mds/majorarchetypes.html

Jung found that these symbols are deeply effecting when a person experiences them in their daily life.  They tend to evoke intense emotions and personal connection.  Those who are not aware of how archetypes affect them can be easily swayed or manipulated by archetypal events or imagery.  Jung's form of psychology was based around the idea that these inborn structures of information could be used to cure mental illness if patients were forced to examine themselves and their unconscious more closely.  To this day, Jungian psychology remains far more effective in treating imbalances such as schizophrenia than any pharmaceutical ever marketed by mainstream psychiatry.  However, Jung was startled early in his work to find that he was not the first to utilize archetypes as keys to opening doors in the mind.  There had been others long before him…

A Scientific Basis For The Occult?

Jung continued to return to two ancient belief systems when looking for clues on how archetypes operate; Hermetics, and Alchemy.  These systems existed in pre-biblical times, yet shockingly, seemed to employ the same methods of examining unconscious symbolism that Jung would stumble upon thousands of years later.

When the ancient and exclusive priest sects of Babylon and Egypt were practicing their rituals and symbolism to influence the masses, were they actually using an early form of Jungian Psychology?  Was it possible that occult groups and their "magical" qualities were not really magical at all, but the expert use of archetypal symbols to manipulate the minds of their followers?  Was this the great secret that they were trying to hide from the commoners?

A close examination of occult belief systems is very revealing.  Occult symbolism matches and catalogs many of Jung's archetypes perfectly.  In fact, looking through the Arcana of a tarot card deck (and their meanings) is like looking through a list of symbols and themes Jung found to be common in the dreams of every human being:

http://www.schuelers.com/chaos/chaos7.htm

http://www.intuitivetarot.com/majorarcana.html

Imagine having the knowledge of archetypes and how they effect people emotionally 3000 years ago.  Your ability to influence the minds of others would certainly appear to be nothing short of "wizardry!"  Of course, just because the elites of old used archetypal symbols doesn't necessarily mean they knew exactly what they were doing or why it worked, so let us jump ahead to the middle ages and the renaissance for more evidence…

Freemasons And The Use Of Archetypes

The occult practices of ancient Babylon, Egypt, and Greece, did not disappear after the deaths of those empires, but were carried on by secret societies throughout the Middle Ages, including the Rosicrucians, and the Freemasons.  It is hard to say whether or not these societies are directly descended from the mystery schools of old, or if they simply adapted the same beliefs centuries later.  However, the Freemasons themselves declare that they and their practices are directly descended from the religious orders of Babylon and Egypt:

"Masonry stands in this tradition; and if we may not say that it is historically related to the great ancient orders, it is their spiritual descendant, and renders much the same ministry to our age which the Mysteries rendered to the olden world."
–Joseph Fort Newton, 33″ Mason, from his book "The Builders"
"Study of spiritual realities found in Masonry reveals that we have perpetuated and increasingly activated the essential principals of the ancient Mystery Schools which have existed from the very earliest times."
–Foster Bailey, from his book "The Spirit of Masonry"

When entering Freemasonry, initiates must take the "Oath of Nimrod."  Nimrod is purported to be the first king of Babylon.  This is admitted in their own literature, which you can see here:

http://www.freemasonrytoday.com/36/p12.php?printnice=yes

Oath of Nimrod
Apprentice Degree (1st).
I, _______, do in the presence of El Shaddai and of this Worshipful Assembly of Free Masons, Rough Masons, Wallers, Slaters, Paviors, Plaisterers and Bricklayers, promise and declare that I will not at any time hereafter, by any act or circumstance whatsoever, directly or indirectly, write, print, cut, mark, publish, discover, reveal, or make known, any part or parts of the Trade secrets, privileges, or counsells of the Worshipful Fraternity or Fellowship of Free Masonry, which I may have known at any time, or at any time hereafter shall be made known unto me.
The penalty for breaking this great oath shall be the loss of my life.
That I shall be branded with the mark of the Traitor and slain according to ancient custom by being throtalled, that my body shall be buried in the rough sands of the sea a cable's length from the shore where the tide regularly ebbs and flows twice in the twenty-four hours, so that my soul shall have no rest by night or by day–
(Candidate Signs the O.B.)
Given under my hand and sealed with my lips, this day of 1913.
So help me El Shaddai and the holy contents of this book.
There are indeed many reasons why the present volume should be generously circulated among all classes of students of the Occult and Mystic, especially the members of the Masonic bodies.
The vast majority of Masons smile with derision when the term "Occult Science" is used in connection with the Mysteries but, despite this, if it had not been for the Occult Fraternities, Masonry could not have existed.
"All Masonry of the past dealt largely with the ethics and symbolism of the Ancient Mysteries. If the Masons of the present age will but seek for the spirit of the symbolism upon which the degrees are based, the grandest achievements in the knowledge and reconstruction will be possible and the mysteries concealed in the Greater Mysteries of Antiquity will be recovered to them."
–Mason R. Swinburne Clymer, M. D., from his book "The Mysticism of Masonry"
"The universal sentiment of the Freemasons of the present day is to confer upon Solomon, the King of Israel, the honor of being their first Grand Master. But the legend of the Craft had long before, though there was a tradition of the Temple in existence, given, at least by suggestion, that title to Nimrod, the King of Babylonia and Assyria. It had credited the first organization of the fraternity of craftsmen to him, in saying that he gave a charge to the workmen whom he sent to assist the King of Nineveh in building his cities.
That is to say, he framed for them a Constitution, and, in the words of the legend, this was the first time that ever Masons had any charge of his science. It was the first time that the Craft was organized into a fraternity working under a Constitution of body of laws. As Nimrod was the autocratic maker of these laws, it necessarily resulted that their first legislator, creating laws with his unlimited and absolute governing power, was also their first Grand Master."

The point here is, the Freemasons follow the teachings of the ancient mystery sects, and these sects dealt deeply in the use of archetypes.  Therefore, the elites of today, many of whom are heavily involved in Freemasonry, would also be steeped in archetypes and their influence on the human mind.  Here is an interesting article written by a Freemason on Masonry's relationship to the symbols of the Tarot, which we discussed earlier:

http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/major_arcana_tarot.html

The best example of Elites using an archetypal image to manipulate the masses is also the most recent.  The 9/11 false flag attacks present a highly organized and deliberate use of symbolism to force a particular emotional response from the majority of Americans.

I have often heard the question; "Why didn't the elites just allow the planes to hit the towers?  Why also use nanothermite (military grade thermite) to cause a near uniform demolition?"*

There is a very good reason for the use of demolitions on 9/11, but it is primarily psychological, and not strategic.

The Tower is itself a very powerful archetypal symbol.  In dreams it represents a striving for knowledge and wisdom, or an accomplishment or progress in one's own psychological development.  The collapse of a Tower in a dream can represent a severe psychological break, a feeling of failure and disappointment, or even herald the formation of a mental illness such as depression or schizophrenia.  In dreams, the archetype takes shape and then affects our mental state in our waking life.  But what happens when an archetypal event is created right in front of our very eyes?

This was the main purpose of 9/11, and the need for demolitions to cause a total collapse.  If demolitions had not been used, the WTC would have only partially collapsed, as it was designed to do in the event of an airplane strike according to the men who engineered the towers themselves.  If a partial collapse occurred, the psychological effect would be muted.  American's reasoning and psychological defenses would not have been broken down, because the "Archetypal Event" would not have been complete.  The towers had to collapse completely in order for the archetypal symbolism to be successful, allowing for easy manipulation of the masses.  In fact, if the towers had been hit and they remained standing, I do not believe Americans would have been at all susceptible to the idea of war, and we would certainly not be in Iraq today, nor would we have accepted the formation of the Patriot Act, which gives the Executive Branch wide ranging and nearly dictatorial powers.  This is the influence of archetypes when used by skilled practitioners for ill purpose.

But this is only the beginning…..

Freemasons And Sacred Geometry

It has been proven that our minds are hard wired with not only archetypal symbols, but mathematical and geometric understanding as well.  We covered this in the first episode of our film series Sons Of Darkness, Sons Of Light.

Amazonian tribes in Brazil have been shown by recent studies to have inborn knowledge of geometry and mathematics their cultures had never been exposed to before.  Also, in studies of baby's emotional reactions to faces, it has been found that newborns recognize and prefer those faces which are mathematically symmetrical in bone structure.  Meaning, babies who have never been taught mathematical concepts are born with the ability to recognize geometric shapes, and are affected emotionally by them! This inborn sense of geometry can even cause us to view some people as "physically attractive" and others as "physically unattractive":

http://www.viewzone.com/faces.html

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but in fact, it would appear that our unconscious is already predisposed to gravitate towards mathematically sound forms.

Enter Freemasonry, and the practice of "Sacred Geometry."

Sacred Geometry is one of the foundations of Masonry, and is the "spiritual" practice of mathematics.  Made prominent in the time of Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece, geometry and other mathematics were practiced as a form of religion, instead of science as we know it today.  The shapes inherent in calculations like Pythagoras' "Golden Rectangle" are used often and deliberately in Masonic buildings and even in art, like that of Leonardo Da Vinci.  Here is an article written by a Mason on the subject:

http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/geometry_masonry.html

Freemasons are well aware of the psychological effect that certain geometric structures and images can have on the human mind, and these shapes and forms are present in all their buildings.  Entire cities have even been designed by Masons using sacred geometry.  For example, Washington D.C. was designed by the Freemason, Pierre L'enfant, and the deliberate Masonic symbolism used is obvious:

http://home.hiwaay.net/~jalison/after2.html

A good example of a building constructed using sacred geometry for psychological effect is the Christ Church, Spitalfields in London, made famous because it lay exactly in the center of the murders perpetrated by the infamous "Jack the Ripper."  It was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, a Freemason.

From an architectural point of view, the church is very imposing and emotionally affecting, even frightening!  It seems to draw the life out of its surroundings.

Imagine now the use of sacred geometry in other visual arts, such as media and film.  Could certain geometric principles be used in media to evoke a specific emotional response from viewers, just like Hawksmoor's churches?

Actually, they already are!  Just read any book on visual marketing:

http://www.gmarketing.com/articles/read/147/Winning_Colors_and_Shapes_for_Your_Company.html

The use of archetypes and geometric symbols in a subliminal way brings us to another form of mind control, and yet another Freemason…

Mesmer, Hypnosis, And Subliminal Messaging

"…the real origin and essence of the hypnotic condition, is the induction of a habit of abstraction or mental concentration, in which, as in reverie or spontaneous abstraction, the powers of the mind are so much engrossed with a single idea or train of thought, as, for the nonce, to render the individual unconscious of, or indifferently conscious to, all other ideas, impressions, or trains of thought. The hypnotic sleep, therefore, is the very antithesis or opposite mental and physical condition to that which precedes and accompanies common sleep…"
James Braid, Founder of Hypnotism

Hypnotism, as discovered by Scottish physician James Braid, is a not necessarily a drifting of the mind into unconsciousness, but an extreme focusing of consciousness to a single point.  This focusing of consciousness caused all other information gathered by the senses to be "overlooked."  Meaning, a person under hypnosis is so focused on a single point that their consciousness is unable to recognize other stimuli, making them highly suggestible.  Because their entire consciousness is focused on one point, they do not realize that messages are being implanted, or information is being extracted by the hypnotist.

Braid's work was directly influenced by the studies of Franz Anton Mesmer, a Freemason.  Mesmer used a form of hypnotism, mainly as a method to make the sick believe they had been healed or cured.  An entire school (some would say cult) of thought built up around Mesmer's practices, and the term "Mesmerism" was born:

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Hypnosis+-+Franz+Anton+Mesmer-a01073990642

http://psychicinvestigator.com/demo/Mesmr2.htm

The use of hypnotism is directly linked to the study of subliminal messaging.  Creating a state of hyper-focus on a simplistic point in a person's mind allows for numerous messages to be sent into the brain without that person being aware:

http://www.mindpowernews.com/Subliminals.htm

Most people have heard of subliminal messaging in advertising, and the "25th Frame" tactic, which hides an image in the 25th frame of a video or film broadcast.  The frame moves by so quickly that the message does not register consciously, but subconsciously, it is imprinted in the brain.  Some people are easily influenced by this method, while others are not.

Television is perhaps the greatest hypnotic tool ever devised, allowing for intensive subliminal manipulation to occur.  Think back to the last time you watched television.  Remember any moments in which you lost all track of the world around you?  Remember a family member trying to get your attention, yet you were "mesmerized?"  Television causes the mind to settle into a narrow focus, much like hypnosis, making the mind open to suggestion.

This suggestion does not even need to come in the form of hidden images or reverse audio messages.  It could be a carefully chosen talking point repeated several times in the same news broadcast.  Even the scrolling "ticker" at the bottom of a FOX or CNN news program could be used to insert manipulative messaging.

Projects, government and commercial (same thing), still exist today which seek to streamline and perfect the use of subliminal messaging to control the human mind.  In September of 2007, Wired Magazine published an article on Semantic Stimuli Response Measurements Technology, or SSRM Tek, being studied at the Psychotechnology Research Institute in Moscow.  The laboratory's stated goal is experimental use of subliminal messaging and suggestion to control the human mind:

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/09/mind_reading

The Psychotechnology Research Institute has been linked closely with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the DHS has even announced plans to award a sole-source contract to conduct the first U.S.-government sponsored testing of SSRM Tek.  Their stated reason for wanting mind control technology:  "to defend America against terrorists."

Pageantry

One of the favored methods used by elites to effect people on a mass scale is Pageantry; the ability to create an entire environment that overloads the five senses and the unconscious mind with subliminal and archetypal messaging.  The most successful example of expert pageantry is probably the formation of Nazi Germany, financed by elites from around the globe, including the Rockefeller Family through their company Standard Oil, as proven by the "Von Knieriem Documents" discovered during the Nuremberg Trials:

http://www.mazal.org/archive/nmt/07/NMT07-C001.htm

The entire Nazi ideology was founded on principles supported by the Rockefellers and other elites, along with the archetypal mythologies touted by the Theosophical Society.  Numerous symbolic images like the Swastika (black sun) or the lightning bolt-like symbol for the SS (a rune symbol) were taken directly from occult history and used masterfully to build an environment rich in archetypes.  Jung, who witnessed the transformation of Germany, despaired at the use of archetypes in the destruction of Europe:

"If thirty years ago anyone had dared to predict that our psychological development was tending towards a revival of the medieval persecutions of the Jews, that Europe would again tremble before the Roman fasces and the tramp of legions, that people would once more give the Roman salute, as two thousand years ago, and that instead of the Christian Cross an archaic swastika would lure onward millions of warriors ready for death — why, that man would have been hooted at as a mystical fool."
–Carl Gustav Jung

Another purpose to pageantry and ceremony is to influence people to experience what Jung called the "Collective Unconscious," an intuitive psychological network to which all people are unconsciously connected.  Most of us are only vaguely aware of this connection, but the evidence of its existence can be seen in the identical archetypal symbolism of every culture at any point in history.

Almost every religion uses symbolic ceremony to create a collective experience of the unconscious.  These ceremonies can help people to better understand themselves, and their relationship to humanity as a whole, however, such pageants can also be used to enslave the minds of an entire group through a collective sense of fear, guilt, and rage.  This is why many of the ancient mystery sects of Babylon and Egypt used human sacrifice during ceremony.

It is normally written off by historians as zealotry and lunacy, but there is a very tangible purpose behind sacrificial ceremonies.  The act of collective murder is incredibly invasive and can put an unbreakable stranglehold on the psyches of those who participate.  Often, these ceremonies are meant to create a rift which allows people to ignore conscience; the intuitive and inborn force which helps us to find peace and balance.  The witnesses and perpetrators of such an event are often bound emotionally for years or even decades after.

That is why the Global Elites of today still portray sacrifice in their pageants, like the "Cremation of Care" (cremation of conscience) ceremony at Bohemian Grove in Northern California, which many U.S. presidents have attended, including George W. Bush.  Take note of the numerous references to Babylon in this ceremony, as well as the stone statue of Moloch, the Babylonian god of death and sacrifice.

Another elitist group that still uses sacrifice in effigy (perhaps real as well) is the Skull and Bones Society which holds in its ranks such well known politicians a George H.W. Bush, George W Bush, and John Kerry.

The idea that our world leaders even pretend to commit acts of human sacrifice should be extremely disturbing to anyone who understands the psychological implications of pageantry and mind control.  No leader of men should be separated from his conscience.

MK-ULTRA

Perhaps the pinnacle of all exposed government sponsored mind control programs was MK-ULTRA, a multifaceted project spread across several countries utilizing every method of psychological manipulation mentioned in this article, as well as others not mentioned.

MK-ULTRA was a CIA based program started officially in 1953 and continued at least through the 1960's.  It employed scientists (some human rights criminals and murderers) smuggled from Nazi Germany after the war through Operation Paper Clip.  The experiments of MK-ULTRA, under the supervision of men like Dr. Sidney Gottliebb and Dr. Ewen Cameron,  often used unsuspecting people as guinea pigs, exposing them to forced drugging, subliminal messaging, and even torture.  Some believe these experiments continue today under a different name. 

In the early 70's, victims of these experiments began to come forward, and in response, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MK-ULTRA files destroyed. Only a bare skeleton of files remain to help us understand what really happened.  You can view all of those documents here:

http://www.michael-robinett.com/declass/c000.htm

Project MK-ULTRA was first brought to wide public attention in 1975 as Congress was forced to acknowledge the numerous victims coming forward to tell their story.  The resulting government "investigation" was mostly for show, and was organized by the Rockefeller Commission.  No member of the CIA or any doctor employed by them was ever prosecuted for their crimes.

Defense Against Mind Control Methods

The first step in defending against manipulation is of course to first understand the methods used by manipulators to get what they want.  After careful study, you should be able to easily pick out key phrases, archetypal symbols, subliminal messages, and other devices when you are confronted by them.  It is interesting to examine these methods in depth and then go back out into the world of media and propaganda.  You may be startled by what you see on the T.V. and in the streets that you did not notice before.

The other defense against mind control was actually realized by Carl Jung.  Jung found that those people who used Archetypal Psychology for good, those who used it to understand themselves and their inborn qualities, were actually incredibly resistant to manipulation and subversion.  They could not be caught in the fervor of an archetypal event, because they knew their own unconscious so well.  These men and women were psychological mountains, immovable spires of mental strength that could not be changed and controlled by others.  For those not yet self aware, the mind remains a subtle and mutable form, a delicate instrument that expresses the contents of the spirit, but hard to predict and defend.  Knowing one's self is the key to breaking from the poisonous circle of psychological manipulation, and to expel the habit of apathy that settles human beings into tyranny.  To win liberty back from the clutches of elites, we must first WANT to be free, and the path to freedom begins in the minds and the hearts of men.

"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
–Adolf Hitler


 



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[chottala.com] Raid inside house of Mirza Abbas



Raid inside house of Mirza Abbas

20 hurt as law enforcers charge batons

 
slide show Opposition workers wail in pain after a baton-charge by Rab men at Mirza Abbas's house in Shahjahanpur yesterday. Inset, plain-clothes officers apprehend a pro-hartal activist inside the BNP leader's house. Photo: star

Rapid Action Battalion men yesterday stormed Mirza Abbas's Shahjahanpur residence in the capital and charged baton injuring some 20 persons including family members of the BNP standing committee member.

Locals said following the arrest of Abbas, his wife Afroza Abbas brought out a procession with around 100 activists. Parading different lanes in Shahjahanpur and Shahidbagh areas, the procession ended at the BNP leader's house at around 11:15am.

Soon afterwards, Rab personnel forcibly entered the three-storey building. They ransacked rooms on every floor and beat up family members and local BNP workers inside.

In a late-night development, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia went to the Abbas residence to visit the family members.

Earlier in the afternoon, Afroza Abbas said Rab personnel accompanied by ruling party cadres broke into their house, beat up at least 40 people including her octogenarian mother-in-law and looted valuables.

Speaking at a press briefing at her residence, she also alleged that the elite crime busters harassed some female activists.

Afroza said they came under the attack after they ended their procession peacefully.

Talking to this correspondent, Abbas's mother Kamala Khatun said Rab men got into her room and baton-charged family members who had taken refuge there.

In a chocked voice, she said even military officers did not misbehave with her after the 1/11 changeover.

"I requested them not to beat my nephew Jamal as he was a guest. But they did not listen to me. They shoved me over when I went to his rescue."

Jahura Begum Baby, organising secretary of ward-24 BNP, said Rab personnel beat her while she was trying to get out of the house.

Kamal Uddin, joint secretary of Khilgaon BNP, said Rab men clubbed them inside Abbas's office on the ground floor. During the attack, they picked up around 20 BNP activists including two females.

Lt Col Ziaul Ahsan, chief of Rab intelligence wing, said they went inside the house and charged baton on the BNP workers there after brick chips had been thrown at them.

He however denied the allegations of looting and assault on women.

He added that they were aided by police during the raid.

Contacted, a DMP official said no policeman was present when Rab raided Abbas's house.

 
 
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[chottala.com] Disinformation Tactics: The Methods Used To Keep You In The Dark



There was a time, not too long ago (relatively speaking), that governments and the groups of elites that controlled them did not find it necessary to conscript themselves into wars of disinformation. Propaganda was relatively straightforward. The lies were much simpler. The control of information flow was easily directed. In fact, during the early Middle-Ages in most European countries commoners were not even allowed to own a Bible, nor was the Bible allowed to be interpreted from Latin to another language, let alone any other tome that might breed "dangerous ideas". This was due in large part to the established feudal system and its hierarchy of royals and clergy. Rules were enforced with the threat of property confiscation and execution for anyone who strayed from the rigid socio-political structure. Those who had theological, metaphysical, or scientific information outside of the conventional and scripted collective world view were tortured and slaughtered. The elites kept the information to themselves, and removed its remnants from mainstream recognition, sometimes for centuries before it was rediscovered.

With the advent of anti-feudalism, and most importantly the success of the American Revolution, elites were no longer able to dominate information with the edge of a blade or the barrel of a gun. The establishment of Democracies (and Democratic Republics), with their philosophy of open government and rule by the people, compelled Aristocratic minorities to plot more subtle ways of obstructing the truth and thus maintaining their hold over the world without exposing themselves to retribution from the masses. Thus, the complex art of disinformation was born. The technique, the "magic" of the lie, was refined and perfected. The mechanics of the human mind and the human soul became an endless obsession for the elites.

The goal was malicious, but socially radical; instead of expending the impossible energy needed to dictate the very form and existence of the truth, they would allow it to drift, obscured in a fog of contrived data. They would wrap the truth in a "Gordian Knot" of misdirections and fabrications so elaborate that they felt certain the majority of people would surrender, giving up long before they ever finished unraveling the deceit. The goal was not to destroy the truth, but to hide it in plain sight.

In modern times, and with carefully engineered methods, this goal has for the most part been accomplished. However, these methods also have inherent weaknesses. Lies are fragile. They require constant attentiveness to keep them alive. The exposure of a single truth can rip through an ocean of lies, evaporating it instantly. In this article, we will examine the methods used to fertilize and promote the growth of disinformation, as well as how to identify the roots of disinformation and effectively cut them, starving out the entire system of fallacies once and for all.

Media Disinformation Methods

The mainstream media, once tasked with the job of investigating government corruption and keeping elitists in line, has now become nothing more than a PR firm for corrupt officials and their Globalist handlers. The days of the legitimate "investigative reporter" are long gone, and journalism itself has deteriorated into a rancid pool of so called "TV Editorialists" who treat their own baseless opinions as supported fact.

The elitist co-opting of news has been going on in one form or another since the invention of the printing press, however, the first methods of media disinformation truly came to fruition under the supervision of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, who believed the truth was "subjective" and open to his personal interpretation. Hearst's legacy of lies and sensationalism lives on in the Hearst published magazine 'Popular Mechanics', who accuse the growing 9/11 Truth Movement of outrageous "conspiracy theory" while at the same time consistently publishing articles about UFO sightings and secret government flying saucer programs.

 

As we will show, this strange juxtaposition of mixed signals and hypocritical accusations is characteristic of all purveyors of disinformation.

Some of the main tactics used by the mainstream media to mislead the masses are as follows:

Lie Big, Retract Quietly

Mainstream media sources (especially newspapers) are notorious for reporting flagrantly dishonest and unsupported news stories on the front page, then quietly retracting those stories on the very back page when they are caught. In this case, the point is to railroad the lie into the collective consciousness. Once the lie is finally exposed, it is already too late, and a large portion of the population will not notice or care when the truth comes out. A good example of this would be the collusion of the MSM with the Bush administration to convince the American public after 9/11 that Iraq had WMDs, even though no concrete evidence existed to prove it. George W. Bush's eventual admission that there had never been any WMDs in Iraq (except chemical weapons which the U.S. actually sold to Saddam under the Reagan / Bush administration) was lightly reported or glazed over by most mainstream news sources. The core reason behind a war that has now killed over a million people was proven to be completely fraudulent, yet I still run into people today who believe that Iraq had nukes…

Unconfirmed Or Controlled Sources As Fact

Cable news venues often cite information from "unnamed" sources, government sources that have an obvious bias or agenda, or "expert" sources without providing an alternative "expert" view. The information provided by these sources is usually backed by nothing more than blind faith. A recent example of this would be the Osama Bin Laden audio tapes which supposedly reveal that the Christmas "Underwear Bomber" was indeed Al-Qaeda:

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/osama-bin-laden-addresses-president-obama-audio-tape/story?id=9650267

The media treats the audio tape as undeniable fact in numerous stories, then at the same time prints a side story which shows that the White House cannot confirm that the tape is even real:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60N16I20100124

If the White House cannot confirm the authenticity of the tape, then why did the media report on its contents as if it had been confirmed?

Calculated Omission

Otherwise known as "cherry picking" data. One simple piece of information or root item of truth can derail an entire disinfo news story, so instead of trying to gloss over it, they simply pretend as if it doesn't exist. When the fact is omitted, the lie can appear entirely rational. This tactic is also used extensively when disinformation agents and crooked journalists engage in open debate.

Distraction, and the Manufacture of Relevance

Sometimes the truth wells up into the public awareness regardless of what the media does to bury it. When this occurs their only recourse is to attempt to change the public's focus and thereby distract them from the truth they were so close to grasping. The media accomplishes this by "over-reporting" on a subject that has nothing to do with the more important issues at hand. Ironically, the media can take an unimportant story, and by reporting on it ad nauseum, cause many Americans to assume that because the media won't shut-up about it, it must be important! An example of this would be the recent push for an audit of the Federal Reserve which was gaining major public support, as well as political support. Instead of reporting on this incredible and unprecedented movement for transparency in the Fed, the MSM spent two months or more reporting non-stop on the death of Michael Jackson, a pop idol who had not released a decent record since "Thriller," practically deifying the man who only months earlier was being lambasted by the same MSM for having "wandering hands" when children were about.

Dishonest Debate Tactics

Sometimes, men who actually are concerned with the average American's pursuit of honesty and legitimate fact-driven information break through and appear on T.V. However, rarely are they allowed to share their views or insights without having to fight through a wall of carefully crafted deceit and propaganda. Because the media knows they will lose credibility if they do not allow guests with opposing viewpoints every once in a while, they set up and choreograph specialized T.V. debates in highly restrictive environments which put the guest on the defensive, and make it difficult for them to clearly convey their ideas or facts.

TV pundits are often trained in what are commonly called "Alinsky Tactics." Saul Alinsky was a moral relativist, and champion of the lie as a tool for the "greater good;" essentially, a modern day Machiavelli. His "Rules for Radicals" were supposedly meant for grassroots activists who opposed the establishment, and emphasized the use of any means necessary to defeat one's political opposition. But is it truly possible to defeat an establishment built on lies, by use of even more elaborate lies, and by sacrificing one's ethics?

Today, Alinsky's rules are used more often by the establishment than by its opposition. These tactics have been adopted by governments and disinformation specialists across the world, but they are most visible in TV debate. While Alinsky sermonized about the need for confrontation in society, his debate tactics are actually designed to circumvent real and honest confrontation of opposing ideas with slippery tricks and diversions. Alinsky's tactics, and their modern usage, can be summarized as follows:

1) Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.
We see this tactic in many forms. For example, projecting your own movement as mainstream, and your opponent's as fringe. Convincing your opponent that his fight is a futile one. Your opposition may act differently, or even hesitate to act at all, based on their perception of your power.
2) Never go outside the experience of your people, and whenever possible, go outside of the experience of the enemy.
Don't get drawn into a debate about a subject you do not know as well as or better than your opposition. If possible, draw them into such a situation instead. Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty in your opposition. This is commonly used against unwitting interviewees on cable news shows whose positions are set up to be skewered. The target is blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address. In television and radio, this also serves to waste broadcast time to prevent the target from expressing his own positions.
3) Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
The objective is to target the opponent's credibility and reputation by accusations of hypocrisy. If the tactician can catch his opponent in even the smallest misstep, it creates an opening for further attacks.
4) Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
"Ron Paul is a crackpot." "Dennis Kucinich is short and weird." "9-11 twoofers wear tinfoil hats." Ridicule is almost impossible to counter. It's irrational. It infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage. It also works as a pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
5) A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
The popularization of the term "Teabaggers" is a classic example, it caught on by itself because people seem to think it's clever, and enjoy saying it. Keeping your talking points simple and fun keeps your side motivated, and helps your tactics spread autonomously, without instruction or encouragement.
6) A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
See rule number 6. Don't become old news. If you keep your tactics fresh, its easier to keep your people active. Not all disinformation agents are paid. The "useful idiots" have to be motivated by other means. Mainstream disinformation often changes gear from one method to the next and then back again.
7) Keep the pressure on with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. Never give the target a chance to rest, regroup, recover or re-strategize. Take advantage of current events and twist their implications to support your position. Never let a good crisis go to waste.
8) The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
This goes hand in hand with Rule #1. Perception is reality. Allow your opposition to expend all of its energy in expectation of an insurmountable scenario. The dire possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.
9) The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
The objective of this pressure is to force the opposition to react and make the mistakes that are necessary for the ultimate success of the campaign.
10) If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside.
As grassroots activism tools, Alinsky tactics have historically been used (for example, by labor movements) to force the opposition to react with violence against activists, which leads to popular sympathy for the activists' cause. Today, false (or co-opted) grassroots movements use this technique in debate as well as in planned street actions. The idea is to provoke (or stage) ruthless attacks against ones' self, so as to be perceived as the underdog, or the victim. Today, this technique is commonly used to create the illusion that a certain movement is "counterculture" or "anti-establishment."
11) The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
Never let the enemy score points because you're caught without a solution to the problem. Today, this is often used offensively against legitimate activists, such as the opponents of the Federal Reserve. Complain that your opponent is merely "pointing out the problems." Demand that they offer a solution.
12) Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. The targets supporters will expose themselves. Go after individual people, not organizations or institutions. People hurt faster than institutions.

The next time you view an MSM debate, watch the pundits carefully, you will likely see many if not all of the strategies above used on some unsuspecting individual attempting to tell the truth.

Internet Disinformation Methods

Because the MSM's bag of tricks has been so exhausted over such a long period of time, many bitter and enraged consumers of information are now turning to alternative news sources, most of which exist on the collective commons we call the internet. At first, it appears, the government and elitists ignored the web as a kind of novelty, or just another mechanism they could exploit in spreading disinformation. As we all now well know, they dropped the ball, and the internet has become the most powerful tool for truth history has ever seen.

That being said, they are now expending incredible resources in order to catch up to their mistake, utilizing every trick in their arsenal to beat web users back into submission. While the anonymity of the internet allows for a certain immunity against many of Saul Alinsky's manipulative tactics, it also allows governments to attack those trying to spread the truth covertly. In the world of web news, we call these people "disinfo trolls." Trolls are now being openly employed by governments in countries like the U.S. and Israel specifically to scour the internet for alternative news sites and disrupt their ability to share information.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Raw_obtains_CENTCOM_email_to_bloggers_1016.html

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090104/FOREIGN/882042198/1002

http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/10793-twitterers-paid-to-spread-israeli-propaganda-internet-warfare-team-unveiled.html

Internet trolls, also known as "paid posters" or "paid bloggers," are increasingly being employed by private corporations as well, often for marketing purposes. In fact, it is a rapidly growing industry.

Trolls use a wide variety of strategies, some of which are unique to the internet, here are just a few:

1) Make outrageous comments designed to distract or frustrate: An Alinsky tactic used to make people emotional, although less effective because of the impersonal nature of the web.
2) Pose as a supporter of the truth, then make comments that discredit the movement: We have seen this even on our own forums — trolls pose as supporters of the Liberty Movement, then post long, incoherent diatribes so as to appear either racist or insane. Here is a live example of this tactic in use on Yahoo! Answers.
The key to this tactic is to make references to common Liberty Movement arguments while at the same time babbling nonsense, so as to make those otherwise valid arguments seem ludicrous by association.
In extreme cases, these "Trojan Horse Trolls" have been known to make posts which incite violence — a technique obviously intended to solidify the false assertions of the notorious MIAC report and other ADL/SPLC publications which purport that constitutionalists should be feared as potential domestic terrorists.
3) Dominate Discussions: Trolls often interject themselves into productive web discussions in order to throw them off course and frustrate the people involved.
4) Prewritten Responses: Many trolls are supplied with a list or database with pre-planned talking points designed as generalized and deceptive responses to honest arguments. 9/11 "debunker" trolls are notorious for this.
5) False Association: This works hand in hand with item #2, by invoking the stereotypes established by the "Trojan Horse Troll."
For example: calling those against the Federal Reserve "conspiracy theorists" or "lunatics". Deliberately associating anti-globalist movements with big foot or alien enthusiasts, because of the inherent negative connotations. Using false associations to provoke biases and dissuade people from examining the evidence objectively.
6) False Moderation: Pretending to be the "voice of reason" in an argument with obvious and defined sides in an attempt to move people away from what is clearly true into a "grey area" where the truth becomes "relative."
7) Straw Man Arguments: A very common technique. The troll will accuse his opposition of subscribing to a certain point of view, even if he does not, and then attacks that point of view. Or, the troll will put words in the mouth of his opposition, and then rebut those specific words. For example: "9/11 truthers say that no planes hit the WTC towers, and that it was all just computer animation. What are they, crazy?"

Sometimes, these strategies are used by average people with serious personality issues. However, if you see someone using these tactics often, or using many of them at the same time, you may be dealing with a paid internet troll.

Government Disinformation Methods

Governments, and the globalists who back them, have immense assets — an almost endless fiat money printing press — and control over most legal and academic institutions. With these advantages, disinformation can be executed on a massive scale. Here are just a handful of the most prominent tactics used by government agencies and private think tanks to guide public opinion, and establish the appearance of consensus:

1) Control The Experts: Most Americans are taught from kindergarten to ignore their instincts for the truth and defer to the "professional class" for all their answers. The problem is that much of the professional class is indoctrinated throughout their college years, many of them molded to support the status quo. Any experts that go against the grain are ostracized by their peers.
2) Control The Data: By controlling the source data of any investigation, be it legal or scientific, the government has the ability to engineer any truth they wish, that is, as long as the people do not care enough to ask for the source data. Two major examples of controlled and hidden source data include; the NIST investigation of the suspicious 9/11 WTC collapses, in which NIST engineers, hired by the government, have kept all source data from their computer models secret, while claiming that the computer models prove the collapses were "natural". Also, the recent exposure of the CRU Climate Labs and their manipulation of source data in order to fool the public into believing that Global Warming is real, and accepting a world-wide carbon tax. The CRU has refused to release the source data from its experiments for years, and now we know why.
3) Skew The Statistics: This tactic is extremely evident in the Labor Department's evaluations on unemployment, using such tricks as incorporating ambiguous birth / death ratios into their calculation in order to make it appear as though there are less unemployed people than there really are, or leaving out certain subsections of the population, like those who are unemployed and no longer seeking benefits.
3) Guilt By False Association: Governments faced with an effective opponent will always attempt to demonize that person or group in the eyes of the public. This is often done by associating them with a group or idea that the public already hates. Example: During the last election, they tried to associate Ron Paul supporters with racist groups (and more recently, certain Fox News anchors) in order to deter moderate Democrats from taking an honest look at Congressman Paul's policies.
4) Manufacture Good News: This falls in with the skewing of statistics, and it also relies heavily on Media cooperation. The economic "Green Shoots" concept is a good example of the combination of government and corporate media interests in order to create an atmosphere of false optimism based on dubious foundations.
5) Controlled Opposition: Men in positions of power have known for centuries the importance of controlled opposition. If a movement rises in opposition to one's authority, one must usurp that movement's leadership. If no such movement exists to infiltrate, the establishment will often create a toothless one, in order to fill that social need, and neutralize individuals who might have otherwise taken action themselves.
During the 1960's and 70's, the FBI began a secretive program called COINTELPRO. Along with illegal spying on American citizens who were against the Vietnam conflict or in support of the civil rights movement, they also used agents and media sources to pose as supporters of the movement, then purposely created conflict and division, or took control of the direction of the movement altogether. This same tactic has been attempted with the modern Liberty Movement on several levels, but has so far been ineffective in stopping our growth.
The NRA is another good example of controlled opposition, as many gun owners are satisfied that paying their annual NRA dues is tantamount to actively resisting anti-gun legislation; when in fact, the NRA is directly responsible for many of the compromises which result in lost ground on 2nd amendment issues. In this way, gun owners are not only rendered inactive, but actually manipulated into funding the demise of their own cause.
6) False Paradigms: Human beings have a tendency to categorize and label other people and ideas. It is, for better or worse, a fundamental part of how we understand the complexities of the world. This component of human nature, like most any other, can be abused as a powerful tool for social manipulation. By framing a polarized debate according to artificial boundaries, and establishing the two poles of that debate, social engineers can eliminate the perceived possibility of a third alternative. The mainstream media apparatus is the key weapon to this end. The endless creation of dichotomies, and the neat arrangement of ideologies along left/right lines, offers average people a very simple (though hopelessly inaccurate) way of thinking about politics. It forces them to choose a side, usually based solely on emotional or cultural reasons, and often lures them into supporting positions they would otherwise disagree with. It fosters an environment in which beating the other team is more important than ensuring the integrity of your own. Perhaps most importantly, it allows the social engineer to determine what is "fair game" for debate, and what is not.
Alinsky himself wrote: "One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other."
One merely needs to observe a heated debate between a Democrat and a Republican to see how deeply this belief has been ingrained on both sides, and how destructive it is to true intellectual discourse.

Stopping Disinformation

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The best way to disarm disinformation agents is to know their methods inside and out. This gives us the ability to point out exactly what they are doing in detail the moment they try to do it. Immediately exposing a disinformation tactic as it is being used is highly destructive to the person utilizing it. It makes them look foolish, dishonest, and weak for even making the attempt. Internet trolls most especially do not know how to handle their methods being deconstructed right in front of their eyes, and usually fold and run from debate when it occurs.

The truth, is precious. It is sad that there are so many in our society that have lost respect for it; people who have traded in their conscience and their soul for temporary financial comfort while sacrificing the stability and balance of the rest of the country in the process. The human psyche breathes on the air of truth, without it, humanity cannot survive. Without it, the species will collapse in on itself, starving from lack of intellectual and emotional sustenance. Disinformation does not only threaten our insight into the workings of our world; it makes us vulnerable to fear, misunderstanding, and doubt, all things that lead to destruction. It can lead good people to commit terrible atrocities against others, or even against themselves. Without a concerted and organized effort to diffuse mass-produced lies, the future will look bleak indeed.




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